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A Gun for Dinosaur

by L. Sprague de Camp

• Release: March 1956
• Format: Short Story
• Genre: Science Fiction
• Audience: Adults
• Content: Definite Time Travel
• Original Language: English

Oh, I’m no four-dimensional thinker; but, as I understand it, if people could go back to a more recent time, their actions would affect our own history, which would be a paradox or contradiction of facts. Can’t have that in a well-run universe, you know.

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• The Best Time Travel Stories of the 20th Century (anthology)
• Cited in Worlds Enough and Time, edited by Gary Westfahl ()
• Cited in Time Machines by Paul J. Nahin ()

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